Respawn posts lists of times and dates.
Buying Titanfall via the Xbox Live Marketplace? You may wish to bookmark the below breakdown of exact digital arrival times by region, posted on the official site just now. It sure beats queuing in the cold outside a branch of HMV.
We'd get newer games if they were rented to us, not given away.
The Games with Gold scheme is "constrained" by Microsoft's decision to give players a game for life, rather than for the duration of their Xbox Gold membership, Studios executive vice-president Phil Spencer has suggested.
New management "extremely committed" to Xbox.
Microsoft Game Studios' Phil Spencer led a presentation at SXSW over the weekend and reiterated the company's commitment to Xbox, allaying fears that the division might be sold off. Which is nice.
Collective TotalXbox.com staffers suddenly feel very old.
Let's end the weekend on one of those incredibly cool videos that are simultaneously heart-warming and have us feel sad at what we could have achieved had we not wasted years of our youth building pillow forts and giggling at bodily functions.
Woah-woah sweet child o'light.
When a game looks as lovely in motion as upcoming UbiArt-powered Child of Light, it's incredibly difficult to not post as much footage of the game in action as possible just to sit and stare in wonder. Which is as good as an excuse as any to post the latest trailer for the game released this week, right?
Standby for our weekly round up of links dropping in from the sky.
There's a lot of exclamations going around here this week. If it isn't cries of excitement from the bombastic explosiveness of Titanfall, it's ones of hard fought victory through frustration and hardship from Dark Souls 2. Yes, it's a fantastic week for games, but it's also looking like it'll be very profitable for the office swear jar.
Early adopters are warned of "interruptions" to service as servers spin up.
We're in the midst of Titanfall-mania, with a considerable amount of the gaming population understandably eager to get their hands on the much anticipated shooter launching later this week. If you're one of those impatient people, you might want to hold on to your jealousy glands, as some people are already climbing into their Titans and taking to the battlefield.
"Borderlands can be more than just shooting people in the face repeatedly".
Have you been missing Pandora lately? Though Gearbox aren't working on Borderlands 3 right now, we will be returning in the form of the collaboration between the studio and Telltale Games in adventure title Tales from the Borderlands, and last night some more plot details on the game have been revealed at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
Kickstarted sequel to XBLA tower defence hit from co-developers of Counter Strike: Global Offensive.
Fans of tower defence may rejoice, as the sequel to popular XBLA and early Games with Gold freebie Defense Grid: The Awakening has been confirmed for an Xbox One release by developers Hidden Path Entertainment in conjunction with publisher 505 Games.
Could an Xbox One graphical upgrade already be on the cards?.
The Xbox One may not even be four months old, but it seems it may already be in line for some back-end upgrades in the shape of an upgrade to Microsoft's popular graphical API DirectX in a reveal due to take place at this year's Games Developers Conference in San Francisco.
"Performance rates in South Africa were not as high as we need to guarantee a great experience".
To say next week's release of Titanfall is "eagerly anticipated" is somewhat like saying the shooter's Titans are "a bit on the big side." Spare a thought then for the good people of South Africa, who sadly will not be getting their hands on the game any time soon.
Meanwhile producer claims delay was "what we needed to ship the game we wanted to ship.".
Naturally, there is a lot of hype for Ubisoft's upcoming open-world hackathon Watch Dogs, with the release date and a new story trailer released earlier this week to great fanfare. But there has been a notable outcry as of late of the disparity between the graphics in the recent story trailer compared to the original announcement video that wowed us back at E3 2012.
We built this city on block and roll.
Can you believe we're nearly two years since Minecraft released on the Xbox 360? And while we're still waiting for further news of the block building brilliance on the Xbox One, 4J Studios has in the meantime been satiating Xbox 360 owners with another new texture pack.
Forza 5, Assassin's Creed 4, Call of Duty and more on offer.
For a limited time only, Microsoft will bundle a $499.99 Xbox One with a free digital copy of Turn 10's Forza Motorsport 5 at selected retailers in the US, according to Major Nelson.
Aiden Pearce has some exceedingly well-modelled fingers.
Ubisoft has released six new screens from Watch Dogs, the publisher's recently dated open world hack 'em up for Xbox 360, Xbox One and other, deeply regrettable consoles. Hacking, you say? Where's the pickaxe, then? You won't hack much without a pickaxe, young master Aiden Pearce. Good grief, I'm hilarious.
It's not as simple as saying "Xbox, broadca" - oh hang on, it is.
Microsoft's Major Nelson has released another video of Xbox One's revamped Twitch app, which will be updated to support live gameplay broadcasts next week. How are you planning to make use of the feature? I intend to yell "Xbox, broadcast" whenever I see anybody in this office being particularly sucky at a game. Might want to bone up on your Spelunky, Log.
Play as Alucard in Revelations, due out 25th March.
Remember that time four days ago we told you someone had managed to sneak their way into Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2's text files and uncovered references to DLC where you play as Gabriel Belmont AKA Dracula's estranged son Alucard? Turns out that was legit, as Konami have just officially announced the Revelations story DLC expansion, in which you'll play as the white-haired anti-hero.
Log and Aoife head on down and have themselves a time.
Seriously, you guys. After what feels like a lifetime's worth of delays, South Park: The Stick of Truth finally launches today.
"We wanted people to know exactly where the line was".
You may be aware that the new South Park game has gone down very, very well amongst critics cross the board. You may also be aware, however, that several scenes in the game, involving abortion and anal probing, have been censored in the EU, and the show's co-creator Matt Stone isn't happy about it at all. It's not cool, you guys.
Unfortunately, we can't have one.
Well what do you know. Remember those pictures of that pretty Titanfall-branded Xbox One console that surfaced a few weeks ago? We all thought it was a ruse following the reveal of the standard black Titanfall Xbox One bundle, but it turns out it's the real deal after all. The bad news? It's exclusive to Respawn staff.